Stuckey's Carriage Inn v. Phillips

Eberhardt, Judge.

While, according to proverb, the cockroach may never be so silly as to approach the door of the henhouse, 1 the cockroach involved in the case at bar evidently had no apprehension about invading Room 219 of Stuckey’s Carriage Inn on Jekyll Island, where Mrs. George Phillips was dressing prior to attending a banquet. Perhaps, as repeatedly warned against by Archy, the cockroach-poet who first made his appearance in 1916 in the columns of the New York Sun by the device of leaving messages in his newspaperman-boss’s typewriter, this cockroach had determined to revolt and…